Over the past years, the Bended Realities Festival has grown into a platform for dialogue and exchange between the digital society and the „real World“. Our mission statement is to communicate both the opportunities and challenges of electronic change and digital self-empowerment practically and artistically beyond the limits of the groups they originated in. This year’s festival, with the motto Utopia, will especially underline this approach in a new way:

After cooperations in the past three years, the newly (re-)organized Make`a Change Faire invites projects to present creative and novel ideas about what an emancipated digital utopia might actually look like. Demonstrations, workshops and courses on open source soft- & hardware, hacks, constructions and inventions, non-commercial sharing economy, and old-fashioned optimism are all welcome. The festival’s low-threshold skill-builder workshops for children and adults are now part of the faire, turning spectators into makers taking first steps in circuit bending and other crafts. The faire provides an inspiring starting point for new ideas and projects to keep resonating beyond the actual event into our daily life and society.

The established programme of the Bended Realities Festival will present its unique and time-proven mix of lectures and panels, discussions, art, performances and concerts.

Bended Realities & Make`a Change takes place in Offenbach am Main from Friday, June 09th until Sunday, June 11th, 2017. It is a volunteer-organized event with limited public aid. A small budget is available for travel expenses and material. Board and lodging can be provided by co-organisers and supporters.

Send your applications, suggestions, submissions by March 30th, 2017 to

kostedder at googlemail.com
or
https://www.facebook.com/bendedrealities
https://twitter.com/search?q=Bended+Realities

Last year, the Dystopia & Apocalypse-theme showered us with a cornucopia of amazing experiences--we‘re already looking forward to your fantastic contributions and ideas this year!